Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Repayment UX Engineering)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team
• - Leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• - Supporting peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle
• - Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues
• - Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts
• - Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team
• - Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance
• - Participating in on-call rotation as a requirement

Required Skills

• - 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• - Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• - Fluency in back end development, and batch processing using technologies like Airflow, Spark, Data Lake and Snowflake
• - Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component
• - Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base
• - Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• - 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental benefit
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount